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1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and Elizabeth, out of their desperation, cared little where the strangers were from, what religious or political views animated from their one-day-stand comrades, or what personal or spiritual gifts were in the possession of their table guests. Roland and Elizabeth just wanted a little community, for however fleeting a moment it could be theirs. How those things we take for granted can flare up and rob us of the essence of life. Most of us do not think of our body parts until they are sick or missing. ...

2. Casting Out An Evil Spirit

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... encouraged by friends and their pastor to take this so-called "step of faith." Such actions are not steps of faith. Penicillin and insulin are themselves gifts from God. I believe in prayer but I look at the two hands of prayer and I see one hand open to God and the other ... at last with his dying breath he blew the horn, and Charlemagne rushed to his aid. But it was too late, for Roland was dead, because he was too proud to ask for help. The things we keep in shadows, afraid of ridicule, admitting weakness, ...

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King Duncan

4. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... of a loving God, when hopelessness and despair have been driven out and hope has been born anew. I have been there and I can tell you that there is no joy to equal it. It is a gift greater, more beautiful, more wonderful, and more powerful than any singing of it. The Gift of Hope Roland Jaffe showed us, in “The Mission,” and the gospel writer, Mark, showed us through these stories that hope is a product of grace and the primary function of grace is to remove barriers — barriers that separate us from ...

5. Building A Home

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a mother. One mom, named Linda Rossetti, says she was pleased that the brightly striped sweater she had received as a gift seemed to have a slimming effect on her figure. "That's a pretty sweater, Mommy," her six-year-old son ... identity is established. The parents of Roland Hayes, the famous singer, had been slaves. Roland's father died when he was just a boy, and the child grew up in poverty, but with the influence of a good Christian mother. Doors began to open to Roland because of his musical talent. When ...

6. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... and pulled out a check from several of his largest concerts. He handed it to his mother's elderly mistress. When she looked at the gift and realized its size, she immediately began to cry. Then in a split second the three were in each other's arms--three of God' ... hate. If a black man, living in a white man's world, can live and work triumphantly and radiantly, so may you and I. (4) Roland Hayes had the glow. And you and I can have it, too. And remember, your face is a reflection of your inner glow. A little ...

7. Arise! Shine! For Your Light Has Come

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... they worshipped a Jewish king. It was because they were able to see the Lord in lowliness. They were not embarrassed to offer gifts to a child. The church has always seen symbolism in the gifts offered. They offered gold, as to a king. Christ is our ruler and our benefactor. We depend upon him for guidance and ... and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the Lord. (vv. 5-6). 1. Roland H. Bainton, ed., The Martin Luther Christmas Book (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1958), pp. 62-63. 2. Ibid., p. 64.

8. Rejoice In The Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... radiance in their living that goes far beyond just being "happy." I will never forget a sermon preached by the great church historian, Roland Bainton, shortly after his wife died. His text was Habakkuk 3:17: "Though the fig tree does not blossom,nor fruit be on the ... of my salvation." For Dr. Bainton, and a host of God's people in every age, not even death can take away God's incredible gift of joy. That is clearly the same joy that the prophet Isaiah found in God at a time when there was little apparent joy ...

9. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have nothing to offer that anyone would want. Jesus makes plain, however, that we and God have business with each other. God's self-revelation and gift of love in Jesus Christ inaugurate a mission in which we are to share. The same spirit that dwelt in Christ is to fill us. The ... and their hands." (Donald Shelby, "Beginnnings: What If It Had Been Our Donkey", Palm Sunday, March 27, 1988). Dr. Roland Bainton was for many years the eminent historian on the faculty of Yale University Divinity School. He wrote ...

10. Abundant Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... gratitude for what Christ has done for us. Abundant living is not something we are able to do on our own. Abundant living is a gift, a gift of grace. Listen again to the words of Peter: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die ... Pursuit of Happiness” by Don Foran, Vital Speeches of the Day, July 1, 1998, p. 574. 2. John J. Kohut & Roland Sweet, Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest: True News of . . . (New York: Penguin Books, 1996). 3. Father Fred Heard, www.trinitymenlopark.org/sermons ...

11. True Freedom

John 8:31-41

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... and a prisoner. When the French Revolution, which began as a struggle for freedom, passed into a reign of terror, Madame Roland, one of the original champions of freedom, was herself escorted to the guillotine to be beheaded. She paused and bowed before ... be freed and empowered for such a life. The good news of the gospel is that this freedom and this power are ours as a gift of the Emancipator who assures us, "If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." "He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He ...

12. Christmas Eve\Christmas Day

Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 9:1-7, Psalm 96:1-13, Titus 2:1-15, Luke 2:8-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... of Christmas, this stanza from "As with Gladness Men of Old" (tune, Dix) can be a welcome substitute to the doxology at the presentation of the offering. As they offered gifts most rare At that manger rude and bare, So may we with holy joy, Pure and free from sin's alloy, All our costliest treasures bring, Christ, to thee, our ... and I tell you that no bishop on earth ever had so fine a crook as those shepherds. (Roland H. Bainton, The Martin Luther Christmas Book [Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1948], p. 50)

13. When the Church Becomes a Culture of Complainers and Crusaders, What To Do?

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... much by good works as by evil ones." In fact, like Paul you won’t have mere critics. You’ll have crusaders. Roland Bainton, the great Reformation scholar of another era, said that the Crusader spirit had four premises: 1) the cause is holy 2 ... Jesus into the world. Yet no matter how shrill and rancorous his critics, Paul continued to focus his message on God’s love, the gift of mercy and grace, and the faith and fulfillment that come to those who follow Jesus. The message of his detractors is wrong. But ...

14. Divided Loyalties

Luke 12:1-12, Luke 12:13-21

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... name of Christ. Our final salvation depends on our willingness to acknowledge God. Biography: Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, by Roland Bainton. In the face of being called before the emperor who was threatening him, Luther (1483–1546) declared: You ask me what ... His treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But ...

15. Liberating Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

William G. Carter

... glory of God." He knew it was there; that was his burden. But then he stumbled over the next verse, where it says, "All are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:23-24). The next year, Luther began to lecture on the book of Galatians. When he got to the second chapter, he ... in a Strange Land (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991), pp. 159-160. 3. Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1950), p. 41.

16. Mary of Nazareth

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... cradled in a manger, "And she brought forth her firstborn son ..." Shepherds came, so Luke records, and Matthew tells us the magi arrived, later perhaps, bearing costly gifts. What wonders! What did it all mean? "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart." Years later, did she tell the story to ... In Poetry, ed. by Clark (New York: Association Press, 1952), p. 18. Used by permission. 2. Roland H. Bainton, The Martin Luther Christmas Book (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1948), p. 23.

17. THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

Drama

Norman D. Dow

... angel who spoke a host of God’s other angels, praising God so that the whole of heaven and earth, it seemed, echoed their message: Glory be to the most high God who has given his gift of peace to his creation, thus showing his love and concern for them. The shepherds went to Bethlehem and saw with their own eyes what had come to pass and worshiped the new-born king. ... not to judge you, but to save you.1 1. The last paragraph is taken verbatim from Martin Luther’s Christmas Book, edited by Roland Bainton.

18. Why Earthly Powers Need No Longer Enslave

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... this world, and rejoices in it with such joy as such things can afford ... These things, then, are good things and without doubt the gifts of God. But if they [human beings] neglect the better things of the heavenly city [the Gospel and its values] ... then it is necessary ... Childs, p. 615. 2. For these views I am indebted to the insights of Childs, p. 618. 3. Bruce Metzger and Roland E. Murphy, ed., The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 1138OT; cf. Gerhard von Rad, Old ...

19. Temptation

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the race but also to bind man and woman together. But we also want them to know that it is a dangerous thing ” a gift God has given for enjoyment within the relationship of marriage. A man wrote READER'S DIGEST recently to say that when his daughters reached dating ... . Kordis, STRATEGY OF THE DOLPHIN, (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1988), p. 239. 3. John J. Kohut & Roland Sweet, COUNTDOWN TO THE MILLENNIUM, (New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992), p. 123. 4. GREAT INTERVIEWS OF JESUS, ( ...

20. All Who Share This Hope

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... whom others saw the light of God's presence and grace shining into the world, and she was a life-giver. It was a gift to have her around.5 It's people like her whom we remember, and people like her whom we need to give us the ... to join the church. He's living and working in Winnipeg, but he commented that he finds it important to come back to Myrtle and Roland periodically, for reinforcement. In the city, where most people remain anonymous, it's too easy to slip into a kind of indifference; coming back ...

21. Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 18:1-24

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

18:1 The MT is ambiguous and the meaning uncertain. The NIV understands it as a description of the conduct of an unfriendly (lit. “separated”) and foolish person. 18:2 Antithetic. Without understanding, the fool lacks the sense to be silent or to learn, and instead reveals an (empty) mind. 18:3 Synonymous. The saying describes the sad effects of wicked and shameful conduct. 18:4 Antithetic? Juxtapositional. The NIV implies an antithesis between a and b. The disjunctive but, which is not in the MT, is ...

22. Moral Benefits of Wisdom

Proverbs 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

This chapter is a parade example of a wisdom poem, an instruction in 22 verses (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet). Moreover, it is tightly structured with six strophes: 4, 4, 3 and 4, 4, 3 verses. Each strophe has opening words that are flags, or signs. ʾAlep (the first Hebrew letter) opens verse 1 (after the customary “my son”) and closes verse 4. This conditional strophe (or structural division) is followed by two other strophes (beginning at vv. 5, 9) indicating what will happen. Both are ...

23. Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 19:1-29

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

19:1 Antithetic comparison. Verses 1 and 2 are not in the LXX. The antithesis between blameless and perverse is clear, but not so for poor and fool. One would expect “rich” instead of fool. This is the reading of the apparent doublet in 28:6, adopted by many commentators and translations (NAB). 19:2 Synonymous. In Proverbs, hasty action is generally suspect (e.g., 21:5; 28:20; 29:20). It suggests aimless (if not evil) and unplanned activity. The meaning of verse 2b enables one to translate the difficult ...

24. Further Benefits of Wisdom

Proverbs 3:1-35

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

3:1–2 The NIV wisely prints verses 1–12 as couplets of two verses, with the second verse of each couplet providing some kind of motivation. Thus the command in verse 1 is followed by a promise of long life and prosperity, which is the ideal goal envisioned by the wise. It has been said that the kerygma of the book of Proverbs is life (cf. Murphy, “Kerygma”). The teaching of the sage is further expanded in verse 12, which refers to the Lord’s discipline. 3:3–4 Cf. 6:21 and 7:3. Love and faithfulness are ...

25. Wisdom's Call

Proverbs 8:1-36

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

The personification of Wisdom reaches new heights in this chapter that is entitled “Wisdom’s Call” in the NIV—an understatement, if one truly considers the claims Wisdom makes about herself. There is a superficial similarity between the opening verses and 1:20–21, but the tenor of Wisdom’s proclamation in this chapter is unique. She appeals to all, including the simple and the fools. They are to listen to her because of her claims to truth and righteousness, which are far more valuable than material riches ...

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